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End of Oil?
Posted by: IwantcleanAir -- Dec 18, 2006

What if Americans switched to driving cars that use plug-in hybrid technology? 

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has studied the question and has concluded that "off-peak" electricity production and transmission capacity could fuel 84 percent of the country's 220 million vehicles if they were plug-in hybrid electrics.

Today's hybrid vehicles, like Toyota's Prius, use electric motors and batteries to improve the overall performance of the automobile.  Plug-in hybrids  go one step further by allowing the vehicle to be charged overnight using a standard plug, and by providing enough storage and power to run in electric mode for longer rides.  

"Since gasoline consumption accounts for 73 percent of imported oil, it is intriguing to think of the trade and national security benefits if our vehicles switched from oil to electrons," added PNNL energy researcher Rob Pratt. "Plus, since the utilities would be selling more electricity without having to build more plants or power lines, electricity prices could go down for everyone."

Some electric utilities are very enthusiastic.  Pacific Gas and Electric has encouraged its customers to sign a petition to automakers urging them to make plug-in hybrids available.

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You can find out lots more about plug-in hybrids -- and what you can do to help get them into drivers' hands as quickly as possible -- in my new book, Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars that Will Recharge America (New Society Publishers, November 2006). Available on my website www.sherryboschert.com, as well as Amazon and all the usual places.

Posted by: Sherry Boschert  [URL] - Dec 19, 2006 12:23 PM

The ability of a battery to make good use of our coal-fueled (i.e. hard earned) electricity is going to be the clincher here - but as battery technologies have come leaps and bounds ahead (thanks to mobile phones and digital cameras, etc.), it will certainly be interesting to see how this develops.

Posted by: Craig Mackintosh  [URL] - Dec 20, 2006 7:17 AM

Hi Alan

I followed up on this topic here:

http://www.celsias.com/blog/2006/12/21/the-electric-car-revisited/

Regards

Posted by: Craig Mackintosh  [URL] - Dec 21, 2006 7:55 AM

Reading this, still having in mind what I read on another site cocnerning the ice sea* this post cheers me up a little and helps me keeping the faith into a mix of solution that will save our tortured environment.

*[QUOTE]: this week the BBC announced that scientist have revised this estimate to 2040, that's a drop of 60 years in 6 months! If this is true and we also take into account the current melt rate , based on 2005 perennial melt (14%), then we may have less than 7 years until there is no longer any sea ice! [QUOTE]

taken from:
http://www.clubofpioneers.com/blog/blog-from-david-de-rothschild/13/




Posted by: tschirmer - Jan 08, 2007 1:15 PM

Been silently reading your blog and am also a proponent of hybrid technologies. Anything to conserve resources.

Posted by: John  [URL] - Jan 11, 2007 9:07 PM

currently some nations such as China are using Corn to produce a sort of oil for car. I heard that it's very economic and less polluted. But investment is a bit higher, that's why it's not very popular.

Posted by: dave  [URL] - Jan 22, 2007 5:36 PM

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